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APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. Le Poéte assassiné. Paris: "L'edition", 1916. Octavo, 313pp. First edition of what is probably the major prose work by this founder of the 20th century avant-garde, a loosely knit novel of the life and death of Croniamantal, Apollinaire's larger-than-life alter ego. The book's Rouveyre frontispiece depicts the poet in hospital headdress after his head wound in the First World War and counterpoints the stunning cover illustration by Capiello of an injured horseman bleeding from the forehead. A near fine copy in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Scarce.
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1,750.00 |
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ARAGON, Louis. Feu de joie. Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1920. Octavo, unpaged. With a cubist frontispiece by Picasso. Of 1070 copies printed, one of 50 copies reserved for the press numbered OOOO. Text a shade darkened. Very good + in grey printed wrappers.
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850.00 |
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ARAGON, Louis. Les Poetes. Poeme. Paris: Gallimard, 1960. Square tall octavo, 213pp. First edition, ordinary issue. A long antiphonal poem. Inscribed by Aragon to his close friend, the incomparable linguist Roman Jakobson, "a qui j'ai trop souvent pris l'oreille." In addition to his close relationship to Aragon, Jakobson was close to Aragon's wife, Elsa Triolet, having been her lover at some time prior to her marriage. A few tiny chips, else near fine in publisher's printed wrappers.
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850.00 |
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BACHELARD, Gaston. Etude sur l'evolution d'un probleme de physique: la propagation thermique dans les solides. Paris: J. Vrin, 1928. Quarto, 180pp, graphs. Second book of the French philosopher, professor, and mathematician. Bachelard regarded knowledge as a result of the interaction between reason and experience. He rejected the notion of the empirical world as entirely random or senseless, and argued that new scientific knowledge may lead to a fundamental reformulation of reality. Given the dialectic of reason and experience, reformulation of reality involves not the rejection but rather the recasting of previous formulations. Bachelard was not, despite his scientific orientation, a thorough-going rationalist; he appreciated imagination and reverie as well as reason to be creative forces. Psychoanalysis and literary criticism figure prominently in his work. A very good or better, partially unopened copy in spine-tanned gray wraps.
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500.00 |
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BACHELARD, Gaston. La Dialectique de la duree. Paris: Boivin, 1936. First edition of this relatively early work in the vast Bachelardian corpus, an essay on time consciousness which might be seen as a link between Bachelard's two primary fields, the philosophy of science and the phenomenology of the imagination. Warmly inscribed by Bachelard, presumably to a former student at Dijon. Very good or better in spine-faded green printed wraps.
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950.00 |
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BACHELARD, Gaston. La Formation de l'esprit scientifique. Paris: J. Vrin, 1938. First edition of Bachelard's "Contribution a une Psychanalyse de la connaissance objective." Text a bit darkened, else near fine in wraps and glassine outer-wrapper. Inscribed by Bachelard and very scarce thus. Bachelard is one of the major bridges between the sciences and the arts in 20th Century thought, having been trained as a scientist and working most of his life as an explorer of the process and data of literary creation.
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Barthes, Roland. Michelet par lui-même. Paris: Aux Éditions du Seuill, 1954. Duodecimo, 192pp. Very good or better copy in publisher's printed wrappers. Review copy inscribed by Barthes to François Erval :"pour François Erval, avec ma sympathie et mes regrets pour le voyage en Italie - et mes voeux, au moins, R Barthes." Stamped with the Service de Presse "S.P." on the back wrapper.
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350.00 |
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BARTHES, Roland. Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. Otavo, 159pp. Octavo, 159pp. First American edition of Barthes's finely polished gem of cultural criticism, a work akin to, though rather less tortured than Adorno's Minima Moralia in its dissection of bourgeois ideology in a myriad of cultural phenomena. Dust jacket slightly faded, some sunning to spine, otherwise fine.
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90.00 |
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BARTHES, Roland. Systéme de la mode. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1967. Octavo, 326pp. First edition of Barthes's renowned semiotic of fashion. This copy inscribed by Barthes to Francois Erval on the half-title: "à Francois Erval, d'un vieil ami, R. Barthes." Slightly sunned otherwise a fine copy in publisher's printed wrappers.
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450.00 |
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BATAILLE, Georges. Les monnaies des grands mogols au cabinet des medailles. Paris: J. Florange, Editeur, (1927). Quarto, 32pp. + 3pp. illustrations. 10"h x 7 7/8"w. Offprint from the scholarly journal Arethuse (Nos. 13-14, October 1926-January 1927) of this early article on Mongolian coins, Bataille's second or third separately published piece, dating from just prior to the would-be numismatist 's metamorphosis into an oracle of erotic excess and sacrificial violence, antagonist to Andre Breton, defender of Nietzsche against the fascists, and all-around ecrivain maudite (L'anus solaire, published at the behest of Bataille's psychoanalyst, would also appear in 1927, illustrated by Andre Masson). This might be the last text in the voluminous Bataille corpus not to address his fundamental concerns -- though, according to Denis Hollier, the present work does hint at such in some digressions about Mongol sovereigns. Very near fine in printed green wraps. Exceedingly rare.
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